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Don't Let Me Down Music
All I remember of a song are the repeated lyrics "Don't let me down", but it's not the one by The Beatles or the Chainsmokers.
At one point it get all synth-pop ish and it sounds like "Don't let me down, royce"
Rock song, only have the chorus melody Music
I used to love this song, but now I can't remember the name nor any lyrics except for the start of the chorus ("Today we fall apart"), which didn't work in a Google Search.
I played a rough version of the chorus on the piano though, so maybe that'll help: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1gFPme05ZpRZk1wNNmP_gNMuiw908SdIh/view?usp=sharing
Song in video Music
Can anyone identify the song in this video at 21:40 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l1AVNV42Av0&t=77s? Soundhound turned up nothing.
90s song that appeared on CMT (SOLVED!) Music
Hi, I am searching for a Country song, artist, and music video from the late 90s. All I can recall is a bit where a man is either arguing with his daughter, or physically beating her, then a brief moment later he does the same with his wife, at both parts his young son (might been eight to ten years of age) walks in on him, and his father (and mother and older sister respectively) all look at him in a sad way as it was unfortunate for him to experience that. I do not know if the artist was John Berry, George Strait, or Collin Raye, but somewhere in that ballpark. Can anyone please help me? Thanks.
The father has short brown hair, must be in his 40s-50s, his wife around the same age, I think she had blonde hair. The daughter has light brown hair if I remember correctly, maybe a teenager, both the mother and daughter have long hair. The son has short brown hair, must be no more than ten years of age. Both moments the daughter and mother look him sadly, as does the father (he looks at him feeling that he is not an inspirational father figure). I cannot remember for sure, but I think both times he hugs his son. Again, the singer might have been Collin Raye or John Berry, perhaps someone like them. This cannot be that obscure.
No one knows this at all?!
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Those boys were tough as nails (solved) Music
I heard this song on the radio once - it was in the early 90s but sounded a bit older than that to me. Loud electric blues rock with a raspy singer - I thought it was AC/DC, but if it was it's a pretty obscure song and not one of their big hits. Part of the chorus was "those boys were tough as nails" and that's the only lyric that I remember
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French Animated Music Video w/ giant devil character Music
The song is kind of a folk love song with ukulele and brass playing, and some dj scratches and drum kicks come in on the chorus.
Black and white animated music video (might have been more sepia now that I think on it, but still). The video opens with a giant devil character walking up to a small city. The video then focuses on a couple in the city which is a small bird man playing a ukulele or small guitar, and a topless dancing woman in a hula skirt. They are the band stand in, and the artists sing as the bird and the woman calling out individual lines as they dance. The giant devil character finds them, picks up the woman and listens to her. The bird man flys to bother the devil and pesters him, until he is eaten in irritation by the devil. Then the woman berates him, and the devil gets irritated with her then eats her, and they both find eachother on an island in his stomach and embrace, sing, and dance while the video fades.
I recall the video very well and the melody of the song, but the band name, title of the song, and most all of the lyrics (besides repeated lines of "ah oui" done in a call and response) I can't recall because I don't speak French. It was either a mid-late nineties to early 2000's music video and I lost the link I had saved a long while ago.
electronic/EDM album using EVP samples on every song Music
The AV Club used to have a yearly list of "least essential" albums, and I believe this was used as an entry on one of these: The album was described as consisting of electronic music using EVP recordings as samples. There was a embedded youtube video of one track - the music had sort of a dubstep flavor to it, the EVP seemed to be singing a simple melody (possibly aided by autotune), and there were also samples of a person prompting the spirit, asking it what the song should be about. This was probably around the 2000's, and I think I remember the article also saying something about this being a "vanity project" by a reality tv star, possibly someone from a "documentary style" supernatural show like Ghost Hunters and the like, explaining the focus on EVP.
Kids' Song About Standing Up For Your Rights Music
So some televisions have channels that play music (audio only), and they're all provided by Music Choice. One such channel was Toddler Tunes, which as you can expect, plays songs for young children. Somewhere in 2011-2013, I listened to this song on Toddler Tunes that went "I want to scream / I want to shout / I want to tell the world what I'm thinking about / Something something on my mind" It was sung by a chorus of kids and it was about standing up for your rights and stuff. It was most likely made during the 70s-90s. One other lyric I remember was a boy telling the president to get rid of guns and bombs. I don't know what this is called and I can't find it.
Version of What a Wonderful World Music
So something like 10 years ago, somebody posted a "Best of Claude" from Heroes compilation on Youtube with a version of What a Wonderful World playing in the background. I remember really enjoying that version of the song and recently I was trying to find it again (the video was taken down ages ago). I could have sworn Jimmy Durante was the vocalist, but searching for the song coupled with his name just yields Louis Armstrong versions. I really don't think it was Armstrong, but I suppose it could have been. However, all of the Armstrong versions are at a slow tempo, and the "Durante" version was sort of a fast, rock-type version, kind of like this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRMrAQuccEo except the vocalist definitely did have kind of a gravelly voice like Durante or Armstrong.
Anyone have any idea what version of the song I'm talking about? I really, really thought it was Jimmy Durante singing it (I believe the video even named him as the vocalist), but my searches are coming up with nothing.
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Looking for a genre name Music
1. A genre of hectic, chaotic, and energetic music that feels potentially villainous or mad science-y. Examples: Nasty Habits by Oingo Boingo is the most prominent and "genre-defining" of these, I feel. Some more downplayed (at least, energy-wise? Something wise? I cannot pinpoint it) would be like The Two Headed Cat by The Aquabats!, though the lyrics help it a lot in that case. I don't think it has the franticness as much but the vocals works in the favor of the lyrics and vibes. The B-52s's Rock Lobster wouldn't count, it doesn't have that energy and franticness except during maybe one part.
2. Whatever genre Devo is. I legitimately have no clue and I want to find more songs that sound like their's other than "Weird Al" Yankovic's Dare to be Stupid.
If anyone has the genres of these and/or songs similar to these, you would be making my day(s)!
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Music video, band played by puppets Music
There was a music video that was once featured on Beavis And Butthead where the band was played by puppets. Butthead became enamored with one of the members before realizing she was a puppet, then finally noticed so were the rest of the band.
This Is My Manatee? Music
I remember watching this video when i was younger (i think it was a dominoes video cuz i used to watch those all the time) that had this song which had the lyric "This is my manatee (i think)". It was a Europop/Bubblegum dance techno song that kinda sounded like Gummibar. I need some help here to find this song cause i want to use it for a video i'm making. Please and thank you.
weird lo-fi noise music video? Music
i remember the band had a name that was something like XXYYXYXX, and the music was very loud.. noise punk? perhaps? you could barely understand the lyrics, and the music video was just many low quality random videos spliced together, i remember there was a clip of a teeth straightening timelapse, some old lady dancing maybe? weird stuff like that. it was very energetic and fun, and only slightly disturbing. i'd love to find it!
(SOLVED) Christmas song I heard on the radio this morning Music
Ugh, this is so frustrating. I heard this Christmas song on the radio this morning that I had never heard before. I tried to remember some of the lyrics, but since I was driving, I couldn't focus too much on the song, and now I forget the lines I tried to remember.
The singer was a woman. Part of the song was about how "this is no summer day" or something, and then there was a line that went something like "I guess winter is here to stay."
It's not "Is Winter Here to Stay?" by Yoko Ono.
The song had a similar tempo and style to Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You", but it wasn't that either.
Edited by DrNoPuma
(STILL UNSOLVED) Looking for a crazy animated music video: Music
I can only describe segments of a very cartoony animated music video (90s vibe, like it came straight outta Rocko's Modern Life) I saw a long time ago at a Hard Rock Cafe, and I can't even remember the damn lyrics:
1. The animation was pretty deranged and trippy and repetitive at times
2. One scene involved a teen boy I think working at a fast food place stupidly sticking his head into a machine that had a sign that explicitly said "DO NOT STICK YOUR HEAD IN HERE" or something like that, and he emerges with a shredded head
3. Another scene involves a lady getting hit by a car, causing her to undergo surgery and then emerge incredibly buff and muscular (yep.)
Can't find any info from Google search, any help would be very much appreciated!
Edited by Monolaf317
Upbeat rock song about trying and looking for the answer Music
There was this rock song I heard on the radio last year (2019). It had kind of an upbeat, fast-paced feel. It reminded me a lot of Crush 40, but I'm not sure if it was actually them. I managed to write down the following lines (which probably weren't consecutive) when I heard the song, but I still haven't been able to find it.
River Dolphin Song Music
There was this song we were forced to listen to in gym class while lying down on the floor for "cooldown time" when I was younger... it mentioned a certain type of river dolphin, it was sad and slow, and I think it involved how they were extinct or endangered. It may have been Fiji or Baiji, but I think it also mentioned that they were pink and/or from the west. It had a male vocalist and I definitely felt particular "this is a song they'd play in gym class/elementary school" vibes. I have no idea what year it was from, but it felt like it could be relatively recent, from this millennium or maybe the 90s. It was most likely on a CD.
Edited by FriedBaka
A certain music from a old train documentary film (Solved) Music
The music in question is a bombastic and heroic-sounding music from (what I assume to be) a old documentary film about steam trains called The Golden Age of Steam Trains. Specifically, it can be heard from around
here at between 5:47 to 7:29. If this music has a name, please let me know for sure!
Yiddish song that has "feet" and "unlucky person" in lyrics Music
I'm trying to discover a song that has the Yiddish words for "unlucky person" schlemiel and "feet" in the lyrics. If I recall, the word used for feet sounds phonetically like "feetzalah", which really translates to "cute little feet".
I once found the song lyrics years ago but have not been able to since then. Also, one line sounded phonetically like: "Shane gdal vtseenee vaney glean" It was in Yiddish, so my spelling is going to be off, but I hope this helps somewhat. It has also been more than 15 years since I've come across this.
I think it is sort of a nursery rhyme to teach younger kids. My grandmother tried teaching this to me and as she sang, she would run her fingers up and down my arm or tickle me depending on the part of the song. If anyone can, please help! Thanks.
Also, the song is child friendly and was short from what I recall, though the part I was taught may only have been part of a larger song.
Luigi's Mansion-themed Ghostbusters Parody - early 2000's Music
Back in the early 2000's when I was into Mario, my dad found a number of songs, presumably from Mario fan-sites. These included things like the theme songs to the Mario cartoons and such. One, however, was a parody of the Ghostbusters theme, based on Luigi's Mansion.
I don't remember what it said in lieu of "something strange in the neighborhood", but I do remember that instead of the "Ghostbusters!" line, it said "Luigi!" (the second "Luigi!" was shouted in a particularly obnoxious manner). During the instrumental break, a voiceover explained the plot of the game, starting with "Mario's in trouble..."
The song ended with a Boo laugh, followed by presumably Luigi himself saying "Luigi's not afraid..." or vice versa.
Anybody else know what I'm talking about? I couldn't find it on You Tube, and there's a good chance it's been lost to time, but it would be interesting to know if anyone's at all familiar with this.
"Can you read my mind?" song Music
I heard this song while I was at lunch today. At first, I thought it was The Plimsouls' "A Million Miles Away", but it was just something that sounded similar. The only full line I can remember was "Can you read my mind?" at the start and end of the chorus.
I'm pretty sure it would fit into the Jangle Pop or Power Pop genre.
[SOLVED] Ambiguously popular 80's disco(?) song Music
Unfortunately I only remember how the music sounded as I've last heard it about 20 years ago and couldn't hear lyrics clearly.
It souded awfuly lot like this track
from Double Dragon. It was sung by female singer and the only instrumets used were keyboard(probably) and percussion. Oh and in the 2nd verse the singer chuckled ocassionally.
That's all I know.
Any idea what the song's title might be and who performed it?
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